By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – January 15, 2024 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, chronicled various neurotic disorders, including “projection” and other psychological defense mechanisms. Projection occurs when someone “projects” their own feelings, motives, behaviors and thoughts onto others. It’s a way of coping with one’s own insecurities and to blame one’s problems on others. Another Freudian concept is...

Last year marked the twentieth anniversary of the passing of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, distinguished educator, politician, diplomat and four-term U.S. senator from New York State from 1977 to 2001. It also marked the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of his landmark essay “Defining Deviancy Down” in The American Scholar.

In 1986, The New York Times described evangelicals as “more easily led than other kinds of voters.” Then in 1993, The Washington Post reported that evangelicals were “largely poor, uneducated and easy to command.” (The Washington Post issued a correction; the Times did not.)

What really makes red states prosperous is the determination of its politicians to do the best they can with a modest revenue stream

On the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, President Joe Biden and the Democrats still operate as if this one terrible afternoon is the No. 1 issue of the 2024 campaign.

The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay after “facing national backlash for her administration’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly work” does not solve the problem at America’s oldest college and other elite schools.

Wall Street Journal reporter Molly Ball recently published a story explaining how pro-abortion rights Democrats have “changed their message.” They are reaching into the conservative playbook and commandeering terms that have long been associated with the center-right movement.

By: Christopher F. Rufo – wsj.com – January 3, 2024 The left has spent decades consolidating power across the institutions of American academic life. The crowning achievement of that effort was the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy—constructed to perpetuate progressive dominance of higher education by keeping conservatives out of the professoriate. Claudine Gay was in some respects the apotheosis of...

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – January 3, 2024 Let’s not lose sight of the significance of this outcome. I have heard it lamented in recent days that, despite the scale and consequence of the evidence that was presented against her, the removal of Claudine Gay from the presidency of Harvard University still took “far too long.” This,...

A triumvirate of government, corporate, and academic institutions are involved in efforts to control free speech by cutting off the funding for its exercise. NRA v. Vullo deals with efforts by government agencies to target the advertisers of conservative websites to kill funding for opposing views.